The Pagemaster was the only thing he was in that I saw as a kid. I think I might have seen one of the Home Alone movies when I was young enough to have forgotten most of it by the time I saw Pagemaster.

I liked Pagemaster when I first saw it, but in retrospect… I still think his on-screen performance is good, but voice acting isn’t entirely the same skillset and he wasn’t that great at it.

My Girl is the train wreck I could never quite look away from. Every time it’s on, I always run into it while I’m flipping through channels, and I’m stuck, watching, even though I know exactly what’s about to happen.

I’m surprised to hear people actually talking about My Girl like they know what it is. I mean. Okay. I was born in 1993, so I was probably too young to know about that movie, but I kind of just assumed that it had been lost to the sands of time. Out of the three movies Joyce just mentioned, “Ghost” is the only one I’ve actually heard of at all or know what it’s about. (I think I’ve seen a couple scenes as well.)

There were no Christmas break comics. Roomies! only published when the school newspaper did. And I think it’s been pointed out to you the last time you were baffling at this that, well, you know, this website updates on weekends, while Roomies! did not.

I’ve gotta say, I’m mildly offended by that. I was also born in ’93, and My Girl was a part of my childhood. And I was the eldest, so you can’t even say my older brother showed me or something. Like… no, dude.

Whereas I was born in ’83, and I have some vague memory that something called My Girl existed at some point, but I never saw it and I’m pretty sure I never really knew what it was about. I’m thinking Aslee’s probably right, it has more to do with how much and what kind of stuff out families watched than actual age.

Young Willis gets bonus points for having Joyce mention Shadowlands. No, I didn’t see it when it first came out. (I was four.) But I’m glad I saw it when I did. Yes, it’s a tearjerker, but it’s so much more than that. It’s romantic and thought-provoking and deals with crises of faith and learning to change before it’s too late and just…So. Good.